Don’t miss your opportunity to teach about solar eclipses with the first total eclipse in almost 40 years. On August 21, 2017 a total eclipse will pass right over the continental US and will be visible (either full or partial) from all areas of the

Get your class working together and collaborating with this fun team building low prep escape room game! This activity includes 4 puzzling challenges that help build critical thinking skills. Can be used in any subject across many grade levels!

Set up your own escape room activity personalized for your class! Get your students excited about review with this escape room activity! Can your students beat the clock and escape in time?!? This activity includes an engaging zombie invasion

Get your class working together and collaborating with this fun team building low prep Christmas themed escape room game! This activity includes 4 puzzling challenges that help build critical thinking skills and teamwork. This game can be used in

Get your class working together and collaborating with this fun team building low prep halloween themed escape room game! This activity includes 4 puzzling challenges that help build critical thinking skills. Each puzzle has different versions

Put the water bottle flipping craze to good use! This activity guides students through an independently designed investigation to find out how much water makes a water bottle flip and land upright with the highest percent. Students design and

Get your students excited about review with this low prep escape room activity! Can your students beat the clock and escape in time?!? This activity includes an engaging scenario and 4 easy to prep review puzzles. Students work through each

This NGSS aligned activity uses chocolate chip cookies to model the effect of mining on the environment. Great to show human impact! The activity requires little prep work and it is a lot of fun!
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- Mining Map
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In this hands on escape room activity, students solve a forensic mystery using science, teamwork, and critical thinking. In the activities, students analyze 4 different pieces of evidence (fingerprints, shoe prints, unknown powder, and pen samples)

In this engaging activity students apply their knowledge of the water cycle to design and build a working model. Using teacher provided materials students use plan, build, test, and improve their models. This is definitely a student favorite and

In this activity students recreate the argument Wegener used to support his theory of continental drift. Students create an interactive notebook foldable of notes and use this to create a C-E-R scientific argument with Claim, Evidence, and

This is one of my favorite activities! It is so exciting and has major wow factor. The activity can be done as a teacher demonstration, or working in lab groups. In this grades 3-5 version, students learn about physical and chemical changes with

Get your class working together and collaborating with this fun team building low prep Thanksgiving themed escape room game! This activity includes 4 puzzling challenges that help build critical thinking skills. Can be used in any subject across

This experiment is so amazing and easy to do. This color blending science activity seems almost magical as water "walks" between cups of red, yellow, and blue to blend to form the secondary colors. Students use science practice skills to make

Get your students to design and build their own erupting volcanoes! In this activity students will research a volcano, create a poster of their findings, and build a working model of their volcano using the Engineering Design Process. So much

Get your class working together and collaborating with this fun team building low prep Valentine's Day themed escape room game! This activity includes 4 puzzling challenges that help build critical thinking skills and teamwork. This game can be

Get your students using STEM this halloween with this low prep, easy to set up, STEM challenge. Students Design, Build, and Test bat wings using the Engineering design process. There are two options for the activity - making straw powered

This is a quick and simple hands on activity for students to investigate sound waves. The students make noisemakers out of different lengths of straws and investigate how the length of the straw affects the pitch. They gather data during the

This is a quick and simple hands on activity for students to investigate whether air has mass. The students gather data during the activity and then write a scientific argument with Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning. See my free activity for more

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have 15 years experience teaching middle and high school science as well as outdoor environmental education and garden based teaching. I am currently teaching 6th grade science and have been doing so for the past 5 years. Middle school is where I belong - it matches my maturity level. In addition to teaching I have been on the steering committee in my district to implement the NGSS and have been a teacher leader to lead more PDs.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe it is essential to get students involved and excited about science with hands on interactive activities that get them thinking outside the box.